The novel’s temptation of not existing
The present study is focused on the perspective of Emil Cioran’s point of view regarding some epistemic aspects of the novel expressed in his essay Dincolo de roman/Beyond Novel (1956), published in the volume Ispita de a exista (The temptation of existing). Emil Cioran considers that the self-destruction of the novel should rather be converted into the possibility of deeply questioning both the human “functions and limits”, incapable of expressing more than the disintegration of an entire world. We have come to the conclusion that the fundamental truth of the novel should be searched “beyond” the genre itself, in the peculiar ground that exhausts it or, on the contrary, makes it survive. The only element of the novel stability is the “active”, plurivalent nature of illusioning, actually the highest certainty between its multiple impossibilities of being.
Keywords: poetics of contradiction, experimental novel, authorless novel, novel self-destruction
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